On Nov. 19, 2016, the National LGBTQ Task Force honored Miami Herald LGBTQ issues reporter Steve Rothaus with the 2016 Eddy McIntyre Community Service Award at its 20th annual Gala Miami. This is the transcript of his speech, which he presented to more than 700 attendees at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

Jorden Blosser of Pass Christian MS is making history at graduation as being the first out transgender student to graduate from the Mississippi Gulf Coast school. Jorden will attend Berea College near Lexington, KY, and stay in a trans dorm.

A delegation of LGBTQ leaders from the United States, including Equality Florida CEO Nadine Smith and Freedom to Work founder Tico Almeida, last week visited Cuba to join fellow activists for pride events on the island.

Pope Francis' reported comments to a gay man that "God made you like this" have been embraced by the LGBT community as another sign of Francis' desire to make gay people feel welcomed and loved in the Catholic Church.

Gay-rights advocates are divided on a potential marriage between one of the corporations most friendly to LGBT workers and causes and North Carolina, where they say discrimination remains despite efforts to end a boycott over the so-called bathroom bill.

A Florida LGBTQ organization founded in the aftermath of the PULSE nightclub shooting rescinded an employment offer to an Alabama lawmaker after a social media post spreading unsubstantiated rumors about the governor's personal life.

Almost four months after Chayviss Reed, a 28-year-old transgender woman was shot dead on a Northwest Miami-Dade street corner, her parents came to town to try and help solve the crime and jolt the public’s memory.